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By America's first newspaper publisher...
By America's first newspaper publisher...
Item # 685453
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March 04, 1681
THE PROTESTANT (DOMESTICK) INTELLIGENCE, OR NEWS BOTH FROM CITY AND COUNTRY, London, England, March 4, 1681 Here is a rare opportunity to purchase a newspaper by Benjamin Harris. Harris was the first newspaper publisher in the colonies, having published "Public Occurrences Both Forreign & Domestick" in Boston in 1690. It lasted for only one issue.
Before emigrating to the colonies he published this newspaper in London, but he was eventually put in jail and upon release headed for the colonies.
The back page includes a report: "...arrived there from Guiney having several French passengers...two French vessels, one of 400 tuns, the3 other 200; the first containing 600 Negroes, the latter 400, bound for the West Indies, were both cast away on the coast of Guiney, one of them having on board 70 pounds weight of dust gold."
A fine opportunity for a Harris imprint (his name appears at the bottom of the back page).
A single sheet issue, 8 1/2 by 12 inches, very wide margins, very nice condition.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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